[texhax] letterspacing with XeLaTeX

Peter Davis pfd at pfdstudio.com
Mon Feb 21 22:15:20 CET 2011


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:14:07AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:10:57 -0500 schrieb Peter Davis:
> >
> > > What's the preferred package for doing letterspacing with XeLaTeX?  soul?
> > >  microtype?  Something else?
> >
> > Assuming that you use otf/ttf-fonts selected by fontspec: Use the
> > LetterSpace-Option:
> >
> 
> 
> I had somehow missed that option completely.  Thank you!


Just to follow-up, the LetterSpace feature did work for me, but it
required me to specify the letterspacing as a percentage of the font
height.  

The number I actually have, however, is letterspacing in em/1000 units,
which seemed perfect for the soul package.  So I went with that.

Thanks!
-pd


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